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May 31, 1919 



MEETINGS OF NEWPORT GAR- 

 DENERS. 



William MacKay of Newport, R. I., 

 a visitor at the gardeners' conference 

 in Boston, reported that the members 

 of the National Association of Garden- 

 ers, residing in the vicinity of New- 

 port, meet regularly once a month. A 

 chairman and secretary have been ap- 

 pointed and the activities of their 

 meetings are reported to the secre- 

 tary of the national organization. He 

 believed that similar action by mem- 

 bers of other communities would ma- 

 terially aid the co-operative move- 

 ment between the national associa- 

 tion and the members at large. 



It was recommended that the Na- 

 tional Association at the annual con- 

 vention should adopt some plans 

 which would provide recognition for 

 local branches such as the Newport 

 movement. 



THOMAS J. GREY WRITES FROM 

 CALIFORNIA. 



South Pasadena, Cal., 



May 13, 1919. 

 Dear Friends: — 



Here we are at last, feeling fine 

 after our running around the country. 

 This is a beautiful country with every- 

 thing in bloom. The roses are beyond 

 description and all other plants, 

 flowers and shrubs fully as good. 

 Sweet peas do wonderfully well here. 

 Things are as high or perhaps a 

 little higher than in Boston. I have 

 attended their Spring Flower Show 

 and it was grand. A number of things 

 are new to me. The rose show was 

 good but small compared to Boston's 

 show. There were but few exhibitors, 

 so the competition was not very sharp. 

 Mr. William Shields, an old gardener 

 friend of mine, formerly with Thomas 

 W. Lawson, of Egypt, found me at 

 Hotel Rosslyn in Los Angeles. Noth- 

 ing would do him but I must come to 

 Pasadena with him and stop with him 

 until I found a suitable place. The 

 same day we found just what we 

 wanted, so we are nicely situated. A 

 few days later, he and his wife and 

 Mrs. Grey and myself went in his car 

 to Santa Barbara, 115 miles, to see 

 Billy Donald. Frank McDermott and 

 Percy Vincent, all Boston gardeners. 

 They have fine positions here. They 

 wanted me to stop with them all sum- 

 mer. 



The road from Pasadena to Santa 

 Barbara is the finest I ever drove over, 

 and the view on all sides beautiful. 



Mr. Grey Among the Sweet Peas 



Mountains hundreds of feet high, 

 ocean and valley are enchanting. 

 There are orange, lemon, grape fruit, 

 walnut and olive groves, thousands of 

 acres in a rich valley in a high state 

 of cultivation. You will find enclosed 

 a snapshot taken by Mr. Shields, 

 standing by a bank of sweet peas run- 

 ning up a tennis court fence, taken 

 April 19th. The day before there were 

 sixty hunches of fifty each cut off. 

 They were the finest I ever saw. I 

 often think of you and Boston. After 

 all, it is God's country. We are hav- 

 ing much foggy weather, nights and 

 mornings, although the days are 

 bright, sunny and warm. Love to all. 

 Yours truly, 



Thomas J. Grey. 



ered them with the soil, bending them 

 under it as we do with our raspberries 



Through the summer we have to tio 

 the vines of the Loganberry carefully 

 to wires stretched between cedar-posts, 

 for otherwise they sprawl badly over 

 the land. These posts are five feet 

 high and near enough together to keep 

 the wires taut. The vines grow be- 

 tween two rows of them. 



The Loganberry multiplies from 

 canes growing from its roots. It does 

 not sucker like the blackberry nor 

 grow from the tips of its branches 

 rooting into the soil like a black 

 raspberry. 



To renew the vine the roots should 

 be taken up and separated like the 

 roots of most perennials broken apart. 

 Care should of course be taken to see 

 that each portion of the vine to be re- 

 set has a good root starting to grow. 

 We believe that the Loganberry can 

 also be propagated from cuttings — a 

 method which we have not had occa- 

 sion to try. 



The berry is rather coarse to be used 

 for a desert at the table, but It makes 

 a good preserve. It is picked with its 

 core like a strawberry or blackberry 

 instead of with the hallow crown of 

 the raspberry. A bit of the stem comes 

 off the vine in picking the berry as it 

 does with the strawberry. 



If one has plenty of room in one's 

 garden the Loganberry is worth grow- 

 ing as a new variety. Some people 

 especially enjoy its flavor. We con- 

 tinue to cultivate it at Hillcrest. 

 M. R. Case, 

 Hillcrest Farm, Weston, Mass. 



THE LOGANBERRY IN MASSACHU- 

 SETTS. 



The Loganberry was at first thought 

 to be a cross between a rasberry and a 

 blackberry as it has the characteristics 

 of both these vines, but as wild varie- 

 ties of the Loganberry have been found 

 on our Pacific coasts it is now known 

 to be a distant species. We have grown 

 it for several years at Hillcrest Farm. 



The Loganberry is a hard vine to 

 winter as it requires careful covering 

 After the extreme colds of the winters 

 of 1917 and 1918 we had little fruits 

 from it but the vines lived. We cov- 



THE SUBURBANITE. 

 It was the busy hour of four, 

 When from a horticultural store 

 Emerged a gentleman, who bore — 



1 hoe 



1 spade 



1 wheelbarrow-. 



From thence our hero promptly went 



Into a seed establishment. 



And tor these things his money spent— 



1 box of bulbs 



I lot of shrubs 



1 package of assorted seeds 



He has a garden under way, 



And, if he's fairly lucky, say, 



He'll have about the end of May — 



1 nasturtium 



1 radish 



1 pot of mignonette. 



— Cartoons Magazine. 



